every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.