You can’t let success get to your head and failure to your heart.
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
It is not the benevolence of the employer that determines the wages of labor， but the competition among employers.
