Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

Tomorrow isn't better than today ~ yet.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.

The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.