It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government.

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.

she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

Good luck to you, " he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.Maybe she was.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.