It's no good writing if God hasn't given you talent. People will just laugh.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Dare to stretch hard and make it a point to do the hard thing others are afraid to try.

I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.