I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.

I am the perfect version of me.

... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.