What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.
There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.
There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.
The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
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