Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

It’s not so much where I want you, Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter

Kindness is true wisdom—not cleverness.

One of the most confusing issues in channeling is that of accuracy.

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.