The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.
Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !
I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands of these other professions. Why don't we worry about children being at the hands of an adult, even a well-meaning adult, who doesn't know what he or she is doing?
Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.
The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.