Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose

As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light.

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.