Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.

Sometimes you need the eclipse in your life to show you the importance of sunshine.

Another one of your quippy japes?

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.