It’s the people who smile at you during the day while plunging a knife in your back that are the monsters.
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.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
You are rich if your heart is filled with an abundance of love.
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
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...
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.