Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children, ” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.