The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

The first kiss is never just a kiss but a beautiful place you get to go only once.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.