What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it started. It was hard to see what growing older would mean to such a person. His emotions, from lack of exercise, had disappeared almost altogether. Adaptability and curiosity, he had found, did just as well.

People do not become great without agitation because average is too comfortable

Desire is the starting point of all achievement,not a hope,not a wish,but a keen pulsating desire which trancends everything.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Written By John Knowles

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