Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul.

You live once, and life is short, so start caring and loving.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.