These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.