I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.
I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
When you're all dressed up and no place to go.
... you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.
Sometimes it's the mistakes that turn out to be the best parts of life
In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.
Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it.
My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.
Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.
Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.
There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark.
"You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day." "You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens." "Then what happens?" "You won't be...
Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the...
In a well-ordered universe... camping would take place indoors.
They say Night is all black in the face All that glitters only adds to the grace No attempt to success ever succeeds Without one slogging through the blackened days
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...
She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
You might pass by those who're stuck in the bottleneck while you are swimming in your whiskey, be kind!
If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.
Sometimes, your future is already set, and there is nothing you can do about it. There are some things you just can't change, no matter how hard you work. Unfair, don't you think? It isn't an easy...
I'm not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past... and our future. It's a fact of life.
You Can Not Run From Destiny
Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.
Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.
What counts that we're not counting?
Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
Good friends are much hard to find.
You do not get to choose who you love.
God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end,...