I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Money tends to take on and maintain the characteristics in which it is acquired.

I think when you read a book you leave reality behind and enter your mind, where there is imagination that ignites you and that is when you truly are stuck in a good book...

Being human gets so tiresome at times.

The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

If you want to be clear, act.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.