Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.p. 479

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid making those that are required.

The holy servant, the Saviour JESUS CHRIST.

Guilt at least has a purpose

Different times need different types of leadership.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.