Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.