Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!