Silence is the small man’s only defense.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

The roots of shame run deep.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

No action is safe from meaning.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says “what mountains?

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.

How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.