He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.

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There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.