In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.