Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

My writings are the window of my soul through which you can see me, feel me, and understand me.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.