Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

Kings can only use their best tools.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.

It's snowing still, " said Eeyore gloomily."So it is.""And freezing.""Is it?""Yes, " said Eeyore. "However, " he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.

Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important.