“You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.”

“You’re sorry? I damn near drank myself to death, I could barely get out of bed, I shattered my phone into a million pieces on New Year’s Eve to keep from calling you … and you’re sorry?”I bit my lip and nodded, ashamed. I had no idea what he’d been through, and hearing his say the words made sharp pain twist inside my chest. “I’m so … so sorry.”“You’re forgiven,” he said with a grin. “Don’t ever do it again.”“I won’t. I promise.”He flashed his dimple and shook his head. “I fucking love you.”

“When some people are choosing to work hard, not sleeping , sacrificing everything they have to fulfill their dreams. There are some who choose to interfere in their lives. Who dig in their pasts and who look for mistakes so that they can bring them down. Today if you Choose to use the same energy, skill, effort, data and resources to bring others down, or shaming them. Use it to better your life. You will go far and you will be successful just like them.”

“Those who are in the flesh cannot please God since they depend on their own strength, knowledge and wisdom. But those who are in-Christ understands that they must walk, live and set their minds on the Spirit.”

“Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.”

“Love is the sister to Truth, but they differ in two ways. You must go to Truth to find her. She will never come looking for you. However, you are never to go looking for her sister Love. Love will find you in your own divine timing, when you are ready for her. So don’t look, she will come. She always does.”

“I am offered the Grand Inquisitor’s choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.”

“It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.”

“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato’s belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we’re making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we’re hold out for.)”

“Eldest taught me about ancient religions that worshiped the sun. I never understood why- it’s just a ball of light and heat. But if the sun of Sol-Earth swirls in colors and lights like that girl’s hair, well, I can see why the ancients would worship that.”

“Ali ipak uz mene se može, mada je neobično, Sa mnom je opasno hteti, ja nikad ne odustajem.”

“HereI’m here-the snow falling.”

“أنا لا أريد أن أعبر دون أن أعرفَ كل ما يمكنني أن أعرفه”

“I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It’s not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as bad and unnatural as dumping your adjectives and your adverbs because Prof. B. wants you to. What does he know about it? What do you really know about your own wit?I’ve been sitting here tearing up notes to you. I keep starting to say things like ‘This one is wonderfully constructed,’ and ‘The conversation between the two cops is terrific.’ So I’m hedging. I’m not sure why. I started to get a little nervous right after you began to read. It sounded like the beginning of something your arch-enemy Bob B. calls a rattling good story. Don’t you think he would call this a step in the right direction? Doesn’t that worry you? Even what is funny about the woman on the back of the truck doesn’t sound like something you think is funny. It sounds much more like something that you think is universally considered funny. I feel gypped. Does that make you mad? You can say our relatedness spoils my judgement. It worries me enough. But I’m also just a reader. Are you a writer or just a writer of rattling good stories. I mind getting a rattling good story from you.”