It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.