When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much, let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.