She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

Using for a noble purpose is still using.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.

The sea at springtime.All day it rises and falls,yes, rises and falls.