Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.