I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Punctuation, is? fun!

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

There is no real world, just the one you create.

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.