Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.
For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
One can remain alive. . . if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.
Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand.
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?