There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor.The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.