If At First You Don't Succeed, Before

Words Sing. They Hurt. They Teach. They Sanctify. They Were Man's First, Immeasurable Feat Of Magic. They Liberated Us From Ignorance And Our Barbarous Past.

Where Was It Ever Promised Us That Life On This Earth Can Ever Be Easy, Free From Conflict And Uncertainty, Devoid Of Anguish And Wonder And Pain? Those Who Seek The Folly Of Unrelieved 'happiness'-who Fear Moods, Who Shun Solitude, Who Do Not Know The Diginity Of Occasional Depression-can Find Bliss Easily Enough: In Tranquilizing Pills, Or In Senility. The Purpose Of Life Is Not To Be Happy.

Courage Is The Capacity To Confront What Can Be Imagined.

Proverbs Often Contradict One Another, As Any Reader Soon Discovers. The Sagacity That Advises Us To Look Before We Leap Promptly Warns Us That If We Hesitate We Are Lost; That Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, But Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind.

Happiness Comes Only When We Push Our Brains And Hearts To The Farthest Reaches Of Which We Are Capable.