Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Gordon AllportThere is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
Gordon AllportIf there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
Gordon Allport