The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.