Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.