I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

The sparrow still falls.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

I think everything obviously comes from experience of some kind. It's more about if you closely adhere to that experience or if you extrapolate from it.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

I'm telling you right now, you'll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.