Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

You are the creator of your thoughts, thoughts create your actions, and actions create you.

Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.