Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.

Holland seems like a quaint toy.

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

I've always internalized things

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.