Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Behind every successful athlete there is a responsible coach.

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

That they believe in you does not make them your disciple

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.