Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

God always strives together with those who strive.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

He that rises late must trot all day.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.