It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.
Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
Resisting is worth doing.
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink. . . And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
I've got a feeling, you know, that pensioners talk in a very different way when their kids and grandkids, aren't around.