I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

You ought to give thanks to the Lord.

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

He says he wants more carrots and bread crumbs!

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.