future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

The sun is rising. Let us feel the glint of light in the heart so that we can see and enjoy the magnificence of life.

Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself

Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

Father, you left me, but I never left you.

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.