All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.