Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

I'm afraid love is just a word.

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.