That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.