...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

Know that EVERYTHING in Life has purpose. There are no accidents, no coincidences, EVERY moment is a blessing given for our Spiritual benefit and learning.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

The part of life which we really live is short.

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.