“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.

God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.

Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Death is the only water to wash away this dirt.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.