If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.

Names are powerful things.

Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.

However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.

But can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.