Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

Will peace ever comeWill its will ever be doneFrom dawn to duskNight to sun We wait and watchHoping for changeTrying not to fallAnd to always stand tallFor we all have willEven if it not clear Even wh...

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have...

Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary form, and was, fo...

But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet...

Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him up in a few...

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods....

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself and no one ever will! Believe in yourself powerfully, especially...

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain.

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try.