The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

We each survive in our own way.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night