Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.
He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.