Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Go and get your things, ' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

There is no promotion without Jesus

Life is too big for small dreams.

We would rather be feared than respected.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

Innovation never happens as planned.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.