Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.

People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

The influence of the future on the past, " said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

Life finds its meaning and answers from what life does to serve others.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.