Time wasted is a theft from God.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.

I sometimes wonder if life isn’t a giant mirror that reflects back at me everything I hold up to it.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

People started staring at me at the supermarket and restaurants and whatnot. And I knew that I looked just like Bill Clinton.