Belief doesn’t rest on proof or existence…it rests on faith…without faith there is nothing.
He owe his wife a debt he couldn’t hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.
Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.
He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.
Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Rain, rain, rain. Like a benediction from some vast inscrutable hand, long withheld, finally given. The blessed, wonderful rain. For rain meant grass, and grass was life.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.