I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.

A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought, especially at night.

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Man must go back to nature for information.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.