It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

His soul was shaped by the cadence of Sabbath keeping and seasonal festivals that were intended to help Him and all people to remember God's faithfulness, protection, and provision.

Emergency Rooms ... were the nightmares your nightmares had while they slept.

He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

The future belongs to the free.

Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.