The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

Her face lay still on the air under his face.

Obviously, I know what I'm best at: catch-and-shoot. But I can put the ball on the floor.

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.