Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.

--anger because pain would drown me without the protective shell.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

Everything happens

Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.