All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

The world is full of unused corners.

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

the government bailed out the corporate sector. while the people thay supported the government financally, were ignored and left to fend for themselves. is this what you call democracy?

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.