Nurse: You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet.Joe: I'm actually a lawyer.Nurse: My condolences.
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
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...
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.