Sanity is simply the ability of the mind to adjust to reality. If we can’t adjust, we either hide from reality, or we put our selves above life, where we’re super-beings who don’t have to follow the rules.
No good deed, no matter how small, goes unpunished.
Being poor is only romantic in books.
You put up buildings and borrow on them. It’s like a pyramid, only if you’re not careful, that pyramid can fall down.
Time was a swiftly flowing river that had no shores, no boundaries. Its seasons were not winter, spring, fall or summer, but birthdays and joys and troubles and pain.
There was only one lesson a girl had to remember: A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft.
There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you.
There is no point in reliving the past. There is the future to think about.
There is an adage in law that when you have a weak defense, you put your opponent on trial.
The secret of managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the five who are undecided.
The hungry lion hides its claws.
The difference between new money and old money. Old money’s motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money’s motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.