People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.
Little things are great to little men.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
. . . though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.