Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, ” he added jokingly.

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, ” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, ” she used to warn me.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

So if you choose me, then you have declared me more special to you than anyone else, because only one man can have that honor.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.