Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

Brayden met my eyes. His were hazel, almost like Eddie’s but with a little green. Not as much green as Adrian’s, of course. No one’s eyes were that amazingly green.

Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?