Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

I thought I was going to sweat five years before I'd feel like this.""I wanted it as much as you did. I've just got a hell of a poker face" I smiled, pressing my lips against his.

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.

You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

Seasickness in itself is not contagious, but I’m pretty sure that puking is extremely contagious.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.