Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

Fear is faith that it won't work out.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

They call me Good Time Emo. Because I love a good time! And my name is Emo.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.