God'll send the bill to you.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.