“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.”

“Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.”

“His hands struck her any hour of the day, like hands that strike a clock, whether early, whether late; they strike, they strike.”

“The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.”

“You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.”

“The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.”

“A fool is made more of a fool, when their mouth is more open than their mind.”