a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!