Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

He who does not work does not eat, certainly, but he who works no longer lives.

"You know women," confided the fruitseller, "they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men, you know, they'll want them cruel." The youth stranger smiled...

I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at the piano playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius,...

Words are immortal - Elinor

"They'll probably gang up on you this time." "Lovely! Any advice?" "Pray." "Which god?" "All of them."

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests - - - disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.

Free is he who does not even know that he is free, nor that freedom exists, nor that prison exists. Free is not he who is beyond good and evil, but outside the obsessions of freedom and prison. To...

Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

Evil one may attain easily and in abundance: smooth is the way and it dwellth very nigh. But in front of virtue have the deathless gods set sweat: long is the way thereto and steep and rough at first....

As for will, woman should be considered to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Getting angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this, certainly, is not as easy as it sounds.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

Not all truths are for all ears, nor can all lies be recognized as such by any pious soul.

- Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? - Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

"Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them."

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder that's keeping the...

Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire, walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully,...

Time is the "moving image of eternity."

The moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Well, nobody can say that this siege is boring.

In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.

There's been terrible things we've seen, haven't there? And more likely to come, more than likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word 'artificial.' Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many...

... but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific...

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE