I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Some girls are bigger than others.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

If things don't seem out of control, you're not going fast enough.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.