Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.