The longest way round is the shortest way home

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?