I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
For too much loving you.
Othello, Shakespeare
sent to my wife on 5/8/01

I never resist temptation, because I have found
that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
The Apple Cart, George Bernard Shaw

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger,
even at the risk of maiming it for life.
A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present, such that they live in
neither the present nor the future.
That they live as if they will never die, and they die as
if they had never lived...

To learn that they cannot make anyone love them.
What they can do is to let themselves be loved.

To learn that a rich person is not the one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.

To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French;
I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1869