For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically