Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
The long awaited Easter feast is over in one day.
Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.
It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets.
The lazy one stands up between one armchair and another.
When there are two fires in one room, only one will smoke.
Only believe a woman one day later.
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through ...
For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one’s time, not in getting to know what one’s love really is, but in making it possible to meet next day. When one abandons love one seeks ...
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day...
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.
This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, i...
Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one preten...
Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.
All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.
Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.