We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too - William Somerset Maugham

A god that can be understood is not a god.

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.