A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.
A woman with a sense of humor is never vain. (...) A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one...
What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.
Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.
Silence is the fruit of occupation.
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.
What you cannot imagine, you cannot fear.
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
We cannot totally understand God but we can totally love God. Embrace God.
We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.
Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.
To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
