Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.