We live in our desires rather than in our achievements

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

After all there is but one race - humanity.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.