If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.