Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.