And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom

Life is a series of awakenings.

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

I love films-they are like paintings.

Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.

I call my children "My Hundred Thousand Dollar Babies Before They Were Even Born"!

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.