I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.

Hard work precedes great success.

America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

In my position, I think the best thing I do is just keep girlfriend involved.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.