One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry, ' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall

His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.

Be stimulated by rejection

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.