But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

No one knows enough to worry.

The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.