There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

I would fight every angel between us until God said, "Yes.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Turren blinked and then smiled from ear to ear. “What makes a pure soul extra purer?”“I don’t know, ” Sebastian said. “I didn’t eat anything weird today.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.