There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavour to make it poetic.

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you're unable to forget the suffering that led you there.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Through joy, the Soul finds its greatest - physical expression.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.