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 do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.