It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life