Great ideas are not charitable.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Friendship is a weird sort of thing when you think about it.

You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.