Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable desolation of the soul.

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

You build walls to fortify your heart, and blame on others for your loneliness.

In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky