She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Love as a flower loves the morning sun.Love with kindness, expect no return. Love like the morning sun, expect no return.

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.

Preparation will relieve you from pressures. Stay prepared and you will not need to worry about pressures

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.

The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)