Loneliness: Living in the Prison of Me

There is the sorrow of loneliness. I do not know if you have ever been lonely: when you suddenly realize that you have no relationship with anybody. Continue reading

Persistence

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Continue reading

Age

In a letter to Edward Dimmitt dated July 19, 1901, Mark Twain wrote:

The whole scheme of things is turned wrong end to. Continue reading

If there is no struggle there is no progress

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Continue reading