Sorte é isto. Merecer e ter.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
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...
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
Education is the best provision for old age.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.