The realism of failure, the romance of success.
Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.