When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

In mystical terms, the law of attraction specifies that you will attract to yourself those experiences that match your beliefs.

But ghosts aren't white and bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong.

Being a writer makes you immortal.

Stay with me?” His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. “Always.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

All our pompe the earth covers.

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.