Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Make your habits your beloved home.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

[Ted] Cruz may have been hoping his reversal would fly under the radar.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.