The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
All cats are gray in the dark.
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
The absence of love is the most abject pain.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.