When you develop pride in where you’re from then you have more respect and understanding in terms of where other people are from also.
When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all.
When people say ‘we must move with the times’ they really mean ‘you must do it my way.’
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
When people are ill, they have such strange fancies! They are like children, they do not know what they want.[Les malades ont des fantaisies si bizarres! ils sont comme des enfants, ils ne savent ce qu’ils veulent.]
When people ‘succeed’ they tend to party, when they ‘fail’ they tend to ponder…
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
What is the city but the people?
What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
What are you going to do? What all old people do: sit down and remember, and ask myself what would have happened if I’d done everything differently.
Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain. They use it as fuel.
