She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.