The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.