The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

The worst losses come at night.

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.

The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.

Rain makes the night -- and us -- smaller, softer, more forthright.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We live in a description of reality.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.