It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.

It's too late.I chose life too late.

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting.

It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!!

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.

The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat.

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.