...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

Good, then, is indefinable....

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

When a man that attractive licks his lips, a girl's got to look. And imagine...

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

I love zoo sanctuaries.

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.