“That’s the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“You taste like sugar,” he pants through a smile, still out of breath.”Somehow I doubt that. But I appreciate the thought.”

“It was not sympathy in the ordinary sense which he [Adolf Hitler] felt for the disinherited. That would not have been sufficient. He not only suffered with them, he lived for them and devoted all his thoughts to the salvation of those people from distress and poverty… his noble and grandiose work, which was intended ‘for everybody’…”

“Some people would rather be right than free.”

“The truth is what you live through while you’re looking for the truth.”

“And here’s to the blues, the real blues— where there’s a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.”

“Love cost its like working a full time job you got to put work and effort into it,and that’s why it fails with a lot of people because they on the job part time !!! #GeminiStatus”

“The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128”

“Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.”

“Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.”

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”

“Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit”

“The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I’m bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.”

“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important – it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not – but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone.”

“Too many kings can ruin an army”