It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.

Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.