"It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Believe Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
“Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”
“I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.”
“I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.”
“I thought George Adamski was actually a fraud. Looking at him, I found him repulsive. In other words, he didn't have the wide-eyed, innocent look that Orfeo Angelucci did.”
“My family vacations were softball tournaments.”
“You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.”
“Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”

Source : Edward Humes (2015). “No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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