What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.