If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

The greatest foe of human is his mighty wisdom.

Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

You shouldn't let him hit you so much" observed saphira "Yes I realize that'" he growled. "Do you want me to knock him over for you?" "No...not today.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.