I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.