Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Memoirs provide a message, context and perspective.