I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers.

when you believe inyourself, other people will believe inyou, too.

This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.

You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.

All our souls are written in our eyes.

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.