Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.

All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

You have to risk your heart to find love. It’s the price we pay for a chance at bliss.

Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

My first solo was in church when I was five.