But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.
My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
Today I am even richer.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Values are the definition of our actions in life
There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.