Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.