Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.