It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.

The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.