There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.