There is something about the presence of a cat. . . that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.
Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.