If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Mommy. Do you ever wish a book will never end?

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I'm afraid to be afraid in a crucial moment.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.