Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.

The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.

It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence

A difference of opinion does two things if you allow it, expands the mind and widens the heart.

If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to, then you're probably in the wrong lane.

Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

An honest smile is an icebreaker.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

Where's the fun without a bit of risk?

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.