The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
So little time and so little to do.
They can conquer who believe they can.