It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

I mean, it's not like he's Damon Salvatore hot

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

The giant in front of you is never bigger than the God who lives in you.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?