Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.