Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

God's grace is the gift of salvation.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Every day is a school day. I learn something new every day, and I never know what's going to happen next.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.