Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver.

Battling busyness is a community response.

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.

The team is an extension of the coach.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.