Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?

Sometimes I worry that belief and hope are the same thing, and that truth is something else entirely.

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

Those who educate us can never be forgotten. Wherever we are, they will always be in our heart and mind.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

There's still a question I must put to you," said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven.

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down...we just need a push.

I wonder...," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.