when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

Don't touch me

All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.

You cannot trust yourself, ’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows