Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough. ' Quite often men are fools.
Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness
The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.
The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.
It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.