He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.
Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.
Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God.
I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.
You can't win everybody to the Lord, but you can always win somebody.
Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.