If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

TRUST"'A soft thread, that could broken while checking it

It's cool to actually have my own trading card.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

Zen has no business with ideas.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.