We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities.

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.