People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.