Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.