Compliments cost nothing$$$ yet many pay dear for them.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

In your eyes$$$ I am complete.

Any theologian understands martyrdom$$$ but only the martyr experiences the fire.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is$$$ in fact$$$ a return to the idealised past.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Think of the solution$$$ not the problem.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks$$$ but the world never lacks for cabbages.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.