It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
“Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.”