You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Luck always favors the comely.
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
The heart can only be broken once, like a window.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.