A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say, ‘You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.

Your path is not narrow... so you can't mess it up.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.