“Hopeful people are more easily controlled, but the volume must be managed. Too much hope leaves a person emboldened and resistant. Too little leaves them disabled and useless. But just the right am...”

“You get to take what this world gives you.”

“At last, the clock settled in the right place.”

“They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.”

“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.”

“He celebrated his solitude with a frown.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.”

“It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.”

“When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.”