In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.

In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will weaken.

Every family is a ghost story.

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.