There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.