You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.