The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.
Patricia WentworthThings you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
Patricia WentworthWhen you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
Patricia WentworthTake things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.
Patricia Wentworth