Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

The stories, though, they were all mine.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.