Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,Of how some actor on a stage played Death,With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,And called himself the monarch of the world;Then, going in the tire-room afterward,Because the play was done, to shift himself,Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,The moment he had shut the closet door,By Death himself. Thus God might touch a PopeAt unawares, ask what his baubles mean,And whose part he presumed to play just now.Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Johann von Goethe

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Bannister

And life doesn't want me To just let it me that the I met,The That I fell so forShould only come in Life Life is trying to neThat the I The girl I fellSo for?There's room for her in I'm putting first.

Colleen Hoover

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Pandora Poikilos

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Marie Curie

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Proverb

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Trey Parker

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

Elie Wiesel