A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.