You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?

You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.