A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked...'Because I love them so much.

But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us, " I said."We know us, " said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.

Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.