A vice is a failure of desire

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

If you do not love something, then it does not belong to you. For it wont be long, before you destroy that something, exactly because, you do not love it.-

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

Education is power. It is just like a light in complete darkness.