We all give up great expectations along the way.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.