Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

I'm not letting go of you.

Every change comes in a challenge.

I love you as I love the air that surrounds me, without knowing that my life depends on it.

The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.