Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come

The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped

I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both.

Grateful moments, blessed time.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.