My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

A low possibility means it's not zero. - Tokuchi Toua

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

Art always demands of us something new.

Guessing isn't knowing.

The call of God is what gets you out of bed everyday, not a burden for something.