There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.