Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling. "Well...no," I admitted. "Do it." "How?" He shrugged. "Figure it out." "You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.