My theory has always been that if we are to dream the flatteries of hope are as cheap and pleasanter than the gloom of despair.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
