Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors.

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

we're anything brighter than even the sun

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!