Everything is politics.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today.

To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito", I'd tell people.

I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive.

You are judged of by what you possess.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.