What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.

more money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Choose well those with whom you travel.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.