[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

You got to go along to get along.

There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursue at a particular time.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

When you don't win I think you have to evaluate everybody.

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.