Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

It is never too late to take another voyage.

Life is a great lesson so learn it to be great.

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

We are all older and more tired.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.