The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I'd learned my lesson.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.