It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Hate is a disease, but love is its only cure.~ Kathryn Delcour from Adam's Fall

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.