... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Of all the gifts, love is the greatest gift.

We choose to embrace a quest, and we choose to live for adventure.

If one could amputate part of one's consciousness...

Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.