justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

I don't know what frightens me more