Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are.

Life itself is a chance.

In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.

I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!

I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.