Stories can start revolutions.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.