Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

Perhaps with age came a more sedate appreciation of the passage of time.

Nostalgia, she knew, has the power to make you smile and also to make you cry.

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

There's the kind of love where being around someone makes you feel energized. Just being around them gives you more energy than less.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.