He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, "Read me please". You've to make a choice to do so!

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Ever heard of the word please?" "Never.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?