The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

God will always watch out for our best, providing us with what we need and a soft landing when we seem to be falling.

After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Lord, let me live until I die.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.