Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'.

It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.

My heart do be so big, " she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

Peter, you're not crazy, " William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

Like father like son.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.