In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing. . . Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.
Art has always been aware of itself as art.
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.