The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

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.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

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.

If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.

You don't have the right to blame others for your own mistakes..

When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.