The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.

He held his seat a friend to human race.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Logic is no answer to passion.

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.