The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

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

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.