If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.