Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

You are destiny for greatness. Arise and shine for the glory of God is upon you.

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

I whispered, under my breath, an atheist’s prayer... whatever the hell that is.

Oh, so there were angels and demons, but no vampires? No mysterious, super-hot bloodsuckers who would love you forever? Now that was totally unfair.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.