Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Every fear is fear of death.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Healing—takes time, and—so does—not healing.Chose—how you spend your time —wisely.

It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives by just one product a year.

Today I feel like I did tomorrow.

All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.