It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.