Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.
What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.