Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Oh, America! I could never leave you! You're like my dog, dumb as a post but you make me laugh!

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.