It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.