a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Hasn’t everyone taken a nervous breakdown at some point? Maybe I suffered a nervous breakthrough. I don’t know what tothink. It echoes inside your skull.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

I don’t have to play football for money.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.