Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

Just look at me! Beauty. Style. A little vision of perfection. I love myself and that's enough.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.