Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. |
Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. |
Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. |
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. |
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. |
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. |
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. |
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. |
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. |
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. |
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. |
There is only one terminal dignity - love. |
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in. |
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in. |
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. |