Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.