"There is something great and terrible about suicide."

"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."

"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."

"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."

"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."

"The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people."

"If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life."