Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

True revival can only be ignited by God, but God will always move through men.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.