Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Godliness is a devotion to God.

May you find the strength to chase your dreams

Beliefs are many but truth is one.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.