He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

If you see that you are a bundle of memories and words, the restless monkey comes to an end.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

I will be happy with myself because I always say I don't want to think back.

If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say

Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.