“It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Freshest Boy"Share
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”— F. Scott FitzgeraldShare
“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”— F. Scott FitzgeraldShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”— Paul TillichShare
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”— Leo TolstoyShare
“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant!”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”— Charles DickensShare
“A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.”— Horace WalpoleShare