Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

Ooo, he’s snotty. I like him already. (Tee)

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.