Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.