Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable. . . and knows no kindness with all its beauty.
Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign country.