We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.