How about a kiss?”“Are you man enough to try?” she asked.

She sighed. Men were a pain.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.