I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying

Against my mouth she groaned. "I hate being quiet." A breathless chuckled escaped me. "Me too. Once we're home..." "Lots of noise.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.