Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just...

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a...

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or...

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Big Brother is watching you.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.