All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.