All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.