Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness.

This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity,

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.