One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

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.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

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