The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.

I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

I work hard and fight easy.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

Who needs action when you got words?

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.