The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

May you find help when you need it most.

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.