It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.

The sacred words are sword of life.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.