“Marry me. You'll learn to love me, I promise.”

“When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.”

“You become what you think about”

“You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.”

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”

“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless”