Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Trust God in the dark until the light returns.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

Claire signed. "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness."

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

The speed of time is one second per second.