“God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise”

“Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.”

“Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.”

“How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.”

“Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.”

“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”

“seduce me at sunrise, dance with me barefoot in the dew on the grass, make me wet and warm, and loved”

“That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”