Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

I was now privy to how a calm, average, peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

Your future will be determined not by your education or bank account, but by your optimism and attitude.

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

It's sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.

For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

I want to be acting until the day I die!

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.