In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

Nobody will walk the entire journey with you. Their roads do diverge, so does yours.

Unpredictability is beauty of life. Struggle makes it interesting and worth living.अनिश्चितता जीवन का सौंदर्य है। संघर्ष इसे रोचक और जीने के लायक बनाता है।

Thank God for daily grace.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

When you are wondering how do you go on? The better question is, how do you NOT go on?

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.