Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Then strong, warm arms wrapped around me from behind. "I've got you," Tod whispered in my ear.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.