The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

Stop judging your life only by the failures.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.