There's just no substitute for the truth.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

As long as we acknowledge them, there's nothing to fear.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.