Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.

The path is revealed in the treading.

Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.