...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.