There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate...

What a funny girl, I thought, and then I realized something. To the three-year-old eye, and maybe even to the thirty-year-old eye, weeds and grass look very similar. Same color, same feeling, same...

We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We...

Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from...

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

And these women were not concerned in the least that Kellan had roommates. In fact, I don't think they were even concerned that he had neighbors. Maybe they were operating under the false assumption...

The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures—which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.

It is when I find my soul is lost and lustfully wandering betwixt heaven and hell, and in that moment of spiritual bliss when the chances of recovering from falling into the sexual abyss are zero... I...

The main thing to remember is that making love is at once the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

Now, why did Kitty, who was the most deceitful person on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsehood, somehow by merely suffering remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I...

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that...

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.

Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless...

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

A criminal always returns home.

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

A wounded animal yet bears teeth

The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?

Of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object - or will be.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most...

The conception of two people living together for twenty - five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

Enough is never enough.

More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food.

Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!

More than the disappearing trees and roses, it's the human tendency to suppress the 'Natural Voice' of the 'Nature's Man' which is sorrowful.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You only bow your heads when you want something.

Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.

We human beings build houses because we're alive, but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable, but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of...