We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.