A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.

What was worse, being crazy or being evil?

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win

I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?

We're going to fix [trade deals].You know, last year [2015] we lost almost $800 billion in trade deficits. We have trade deficit with other nations of almost $800 billion.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

I'm not President Bush

Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.