When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

Love who you are. Love and be what you want to be.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths