We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

While you were out JUDGING others, you left your closet door open...and guess what fell out!....Ooops

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

It's what I've learned over the years that has pushed me beyond limits.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

Open your eyes, whether you presently believe it or not, your life is already abundant. Before you can accept abundance in your life, you have to notice it.