A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.

Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped.

Art it seems to me should simplify.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

The earth needs our work… now.

Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done.