“As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to...”

“Hate and love were both conceived in fear, perhaps that was why they were nearly the same thing, but only one was steeped in hope.”

“Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.”

“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.”

“Perhaps her only legacy would be that she had known something immortal, and while eternity may still belong to God alone, not all things were enslaved by time.”

“True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.”

“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Eve...”

“Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follo...”

“Fly free spirits fly, for if you reach heaven before me, then at least I know to this world I have more love to apply. " ~ Roy Hale”