For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been...
And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every advance is a gain in particular and a separation in genera...
The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still alive and holds up the trees, drunk on solar gold. It is the sorrowful climax of a summer's drought. Never before was I so st...
It will be your duty...to estimate her (as you choose her) by the qualities she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. The latter you must develop in her, if you can. And if you cannot, child, you must just accustom yourself to do without 'e...
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.
A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.
I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questi...
