My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.

In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.

This batch [emails hacked from a top Hillary Clinton aide] shows [Donna] Brazile gave the [Hillary] Clinton campaign advance warning of questions the candidate might be asked at CNN events.

God knows no distance.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.