Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.