It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

The mystery of God’s love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.

The worst injury I've ever seen in a fight was with Anderson Silva when his leg snapped in half.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.