To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A great empire like a great cake is most easily diminished at the edges.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will in the end take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.