“It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.”

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

… wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

All is pattern, all life, but we can’t always see the pattern when we’re part of it.

Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It’s such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there’s more than 808s in the universe.

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

Degrading oneself would only kill the warrior within, it was time to hold the negativity accountable but in a loving manner.

You can be a gem yet would be considered a rock, it all depends on the mindset.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I think that in itself, if you’re a true golfer, you’ll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.