One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.