The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.

You do not belong to yourself, you belong to God

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

Don't stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits your return and your recoverying.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

I would just love to do 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I think that movie is fantastic.