She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.

True beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine.

He was like nothing she’d ever known.Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.

And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate.

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be.

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

It was just the way he was made.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

You are the only one who knows what is best for yourself. Find it IN you.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.