The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.