How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
Crime does not pay … as well as politics.
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Our children change us?whether they live or not.
My home is not a place, it is people.