But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

... the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian

If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.