To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early from work kill people

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.