The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Regular people wait for someone to take their sins, while deliverers take the sins of the people upon themselves

Think as though the beauty of your life depends on your thoughts. Live as though your life is the portrait of your thoughts.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique.

I have been maturing as a teacher.