Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

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Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.

Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.

I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.