The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Night is the mother of counsels.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.

When I make a commitment I stick to it.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.