“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.”

“Thats life. Its a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that d...”

“The only valid faith today is disbelief.”

“The most purely free decision one can makeand thus, the highest order of spirit on Earthis believing in something without evidential knowledge.”

“The choice to believe is yours. Its the only thing that truly is.”

“Only super-efforts count.”

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”

“That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer under...”

“Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.”

“And Im stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.”

“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”

“...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.”

“Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.”

“When you fall into the gutter you tell yourself that you can climb out. Then you notice that youre covered in filth but you still think that you can get out. But the smell seeps into your soul and ...”