Coffee first. Schemes later.

I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.

They tell us, love, that eternity awaits.

Certainly, it’s wise to ask for counsel in whatever you endeavor to do. There is safety in that. But when the asking comes from a place of dependence, it is unhealthy.

Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.

STAR: My dad always told me that life will keep on kicking you if you let it. You’ve got to keep moving, and you’ve got to not look back.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.