But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

God had a vision of the earth before creation

It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.

Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid.""Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.