A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Love is the strength of the life.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Tingling fingers, morning birds, rain splatters on window pane, journals of fading escapades and laughter...

Buthe had the kindest face in the world, with big, dark eyes and buzzed-cutbrown hair.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.