It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

Never lie to the one who wants you safe.

To be well trained is to be trained in a kingdom dimension

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

I'm not a guy who gets inspirations.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.