And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.