Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection".

I mean, it's not like he's Damon Salvatore hot

And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.