I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.

Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?

It kind of felt like she was kicking me in the gut, and every kick

Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?''Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?

What you loved as a child, you will love forever

I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.