You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true

If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo degradation

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

It takes two to make an accident.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

I don’t drink to get drunk. That’s just not cute.