Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Memory feeds imagination.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.