The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Now I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.

Sometimes the dead can be more useful than the living.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

We might as well die to go on living like this.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient – at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

Sometimes, you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases

I’m living my best life. It’s my birthday, at least that’s what I’m dressed like

In every one of those little stucco boxes, there”s some poor bastard who”s never free except when he”s fast asleep and dreaming.