I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently

If you have problems with your earthly authorities it may be probably because you have not been praying enough for your leaders

There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.