I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are.

Blessed are you when you commit your life to the Lord.Your life will overflow with great joy and abundant life.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

The(re is no) End

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I like helping people.

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.