Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.

Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.