People believe what they are told.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.