If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused.

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.