A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

Community is where humility and glory touch.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.