Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

Pride is the rope God allows us all.