Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

We stand in the awe of God’s greatness.

It's a pity. I don't know who he is to you... But you are disgusting. To claim you fight for his honor, when all you do is bring shame to his name.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.