Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
Life begins at eighty.
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.
Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.