The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.

Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young.

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.

And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

"I don't like this," he said. "I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg? I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want."

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.