Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Because you are alive and reading thisAnything is Possible

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Life with another person is always difficult.