To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

There is an economy in your mindThere is an economy in your mind!

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him

Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.