“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”
“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough.”
“My dear child...fault is an empty word. It is a coin with only one side. It is not a reason or an excuse.”
“I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them as we need them, to excuse our faults, to insulate ourselves from our own expendability or indispensability.”
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”
“Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?”