It was not a coincidence. It was not deja vu. It was destiny. It was my destiny to meet her.

They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die.

Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.

Sacred-soul, sacred life.

God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.