Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

God’s power supersedes any power.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending.