The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

What you can believe with your heart is your truth.

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.

We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.