There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.