"What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can i..."
- Noorilhuda
"He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend."
"You strive all through your life, to get somewhere, to be something, Some One, to matter, to have this, to have that, fill up your life with possessions, bonds, connections and in the end, the greed i..."
"He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hop..."
"He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct."
"One is only as good as one is useful."
"Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions."
"Be faithful to the unknown, plan for it by expecting it rather than waiting for it to knock you down. I believe your husband will take care of you, for he is a hardworking sensible man, but Jane, I ha..."
"There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands."
"I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the ..."