Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer.