The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

People are afraid of what they do not understand.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

There is no future without forgiveness

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead.