Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. - James Richardson

If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.

Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.

Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.