A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.