It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.

Let's run away.""To where?" "Alaska." "What's in Alaska?" "No clue, " I whispered. "Find out with me.

The differences between women are all cosmetic.

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Apparently he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine if you get my drift.

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.