She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

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.

I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. Iwill not be bound by anything but my love for you.

God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war but not before And when war is over and all things are righted God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

people can die , dreams cant

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.