Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Society's the mother of convention.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
I'm just the same age I've always been.
Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.
I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her. . . It's never over, All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter. . . It's never over, She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.