The Art Of Listening Needs Its Highest

Honesty Consists Of The Unwillingness To Lie To Others; Maturity, Which Is Equally Hard To Attain, Consists Of The Unwillingness To Lie To Oneself.

What The Ordinary Person Means By A 'miracle' Is Some Gross Distortion Or Suspension Of The Laws Of Nature... But Life Itself Strikes Him As Commonplace, When In Truth A Blade Of Grass Or A Neuron In The Brain Is A Greater Miracle.

As Warden Lawes Once Said Of Convicts, No Man Can Be Called A Failure Until He Has Tried Something He Really Likes, And Fails At It.

Norbert Blei Is A Writer The Way People Used To Be Troubadours And Minstrels, Celebrating What He Has Seen And Heart And Felt In A Deceptively Simple Style Reminiscent Of The Early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, He Is A Lover, And His Affection Invests His Writing With A Singular Charm.

Any Philosophy That Can Be Put In A Nutshell Belongs There.