The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Madness, and then illumination.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Tonight, I won't dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and eventhough I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty.

Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don’t walk to us or don’t run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!

There’s not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.

One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

If there was a bridge between the Sun and the Earth, that would be a wonderful road to hell!