For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.