Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.