For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Take a deep breath. Now feel the joy of life.

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things shall be added to you

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.