Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.