The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

God said that He Himself will take care of us

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A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.