Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Hope likes justification, but can do without.
Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.