When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

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.

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."