For each person there is a sentence – a series of words – which has the power to destroy him.
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life.
Everything is true. Everything anybody has ever thought.
Everything in life is just for a while.
Eternity is a kind of measure. But to be measured belongs not to God. Therefore it does not belong to Him to be eternal.[St. Thomas Aquinas]
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth – not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.
Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point. And eventually we choose it, in spite of ourselves. Or we give up and take it deliberately.
Can anyone alter it? he wondered. All of us combined… or one great figure… or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost … perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.
