“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.”

“It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.”

“It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.”

“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”

“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”

“If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.”

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”

“I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.”

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness an...”