... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn't exist.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change.

When God pushes you off a cliff, it is your faith He wants you to use as wings.

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

Get rid of all the hesitation, it's time for you to seize the day.

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.