I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.