Thoughts

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908-1997) was an American author and humorist in the fields of script writing, story writing, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.  He  had a rare talent of saying a book full in a few words, which many call truisms, such as: "In some way, however small and secret, each of us is a little mad...everyone is lonely at the bottom and cries to be understood.  But we can never entirely understand some else, and each of us remains part stranger even to those who love us...it is the weak who are cruel; gentleness is to be expected only from the strong...you can understand people better if you look at them--no matter how old or impressive they may be--as if they are children.  For most of us never mature; we simply grow taller...the purpose in life is to matter--to count, to have it make some difference that we lived at all."