The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten

Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

To think twice is quite enough.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.