Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Once you are a warrior, you must live like one. You can't be afraid to fight against and destroy anything that fights against what is right.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. “Why?” he said to his lover. “Because I want you for however long I have you.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.