Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, so what happens when the person's eyes are unavailable to look into? You read their words.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.