The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

He was one of those capital M Men.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.