Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.
The more you judge, the less you love.