& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.