No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

Nothing happened today. I slept. While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

What you see is what you see. What you know is different

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.