Our human resources as marshalled by the will were not sufficient they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person place thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life

Welcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

When I was young, I dreamed of playing for Ajax and Arsenal. Both dreams have come true.