We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.