Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Madness, and then illumination.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?

I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes. The trolls. Back. With me. Cannot form. Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah, so not happening.

Like Alice in wonderland I feel as though I was slipped the Drink Me Potion and unlike her the mushrooms are no where to be found.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

I could have melted ice, my smile was so bright.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.