Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.)

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.