People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.