A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

This indeed is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done yet without control of that passion its effects are largely ill or null.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.