When all else fails, philosophize.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

The Secret to Focusing on your Dream is to touch it every single day of your life.

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

SoulMates resonate on many levels. Something deep in me recognizes something deep in you that is sacred.

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.