My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Sometimes the only thing that can make someone feel misplaced is the sight of home.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.