It’s the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most.
Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
Colors are what trick the mind and our imaginations into buying things.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...