Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
A smiling face is half the meal.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
So little time and so little to do.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.