The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.