"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon
"Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." -JRR Tolkien
"There's no sense beating a dead horse -- but if you've reached the point where you even seriously consider that abusing a dead animal might improve your lot in life, I say go ahead and give it a shot." -Anthony Myers
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." -Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Don't take life too seriously; you'll never make it out alive." - Van Wilder
"Jesus was black, Ronald Regan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11." -Boondocks
"It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at last." -Angels in America
"I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it is us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questioning - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do." - Mike Doughty
"The race is long, but in the end, it is only with yourself."
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes." - The Count of Monte Cristo
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." -Noam Chomsky
"Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys." -Madeleine L'Engle
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -Michael Jordan
“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.†- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Don't say freakin'. If you have to use the "F" word, go for the gold." -My Fellow Americans