The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.