How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.

Always believe in yourself because you never know, your time could be now.

If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.