But please be careful—and never, never think that you are justified in doing something wrong just because you are trying to do something right.
Brother Fox looked in. He saw two people. He saw them raise their glasses of wine to him, liquid that for him was suspended in the air, as if by a miracle.
Anybody can lose,' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win.
And then, continued the clerk, they send those students out at the end of their course and say, ‘Go off and use those big words and long sentences to get all the good, high-paying jobs. And once you’r...
And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.
And that perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differ...
And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did.
A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.
Just like the affairs of the adult world--complicated rules and a history.
It must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.
Those who have a great deal to complain about are so often silent in their suffering, while those who have little to be dissatisfied with are frequently highly vocal about it.
The finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And
That was enough to make her blush with shame for the mere fact that Las Vegas existed. There
Telephoned Jamie the next morning at the earliest decent hour; nine o’clock, in her view. Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between ei...
Sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away.
She knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her—was like walking in the sunshine;
One should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of anothe...
Old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen was, Isabel ha...
Go badly wrong. Sex, she thought. That is what is going to go wrong here. And she was right. This woman, Mma Gabane Gabane went on, this foolish, foolish woman met a young man who worked in the same o...
Forgiveness of others allows us to adjust our feelings towards the past, assuages our anger. Our