Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.

Without knowledge, we are weak.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.

...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.