His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

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

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.