Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

As far as a job, actors get treated a lot better than writers so I definitely prefer acting. A writer has to make his own coffee and an actor has somebody bring them coffee.

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.