I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God!

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 want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

The present is a great treasure, live in the present.

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.