Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.