I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.