Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?

Love can be found mainly amongst stars

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

No hero is mortal till he dies.