It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

You may need to change your dreams.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

Boredom is the fear of self.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.