But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero, " and that melted his heart.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The world was floods above and fire below

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

A fortress doesn’t fall unless its towers are weakened.

She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.