One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

It's like an open mark [for the terrorists], do whatever you wanna do, nothing's gonna happen. Take our youth out of the country, infiltrate our country in so many different ways.

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.