💬 Quotes

"I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!"

"Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."

"I have three children—how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?"

"There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country—"

"Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination."

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."

"What is the most important step a man can take? It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next. Always the next step."

"If you give up, you will never reach your destination. You will never have the chance to see if the journey was worth it."

"A leader is not someone who stands above the others, but someone who carries the burden so they do not have to."

"You must decide what kind of man you want to be. The world is full of people who take, but you have the choice to be someone who gives."

"All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies."

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

"Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."

"Science is magic that works."

"He was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing."

"If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly at the heavens."

"I have been here before, I knew the bitter-sweet satiety of the first day; the sense of promise unfulfilled, of things dearly bought and lightly squandered."

"To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom."

"I’m not asking you to be good, only to be wise."

"Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; a foyer to the spiritual mansions in which we shall at last dwell."