To sleep is an act of faith.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements.

I'm only up when you're not downDon't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.