If only. The saddest two words in any language.

Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

Nothing in my life would mean anything if you weren't here to share it. There'd be no reason to get up in the morning without you to light the sun with your smile.

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen.” Jenny blinked. “I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

Anything else, Your Majesty?" "I didn't say my prayers." "I'll say them for you. Our father who art in et cetera, bless all the rotten cousins and kill Jenny. Amen.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways.

Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.