Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.

I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.