...Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions.

How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

Falling apart wasn't an option.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

You can only learn when you teach.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.