EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Heaven's my destination.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.