Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. L…

'To forgive oneself'-? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.