I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

After it is all over the religion of man is his most important possession.

Gentleness self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Writing is my obsession my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves as a possession.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.