"When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature."

“If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.”

“Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.”

“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.99, Macmillan

“You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.”

Source : "Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors". Book by Peter Bogdanovich, 1988.

“The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.”

“It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.”

“As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.”

“There is a definite link between gratitude and spirituality.”

Source : Elaine L. Jack (1992). “Eye to Eye, Heart to Heart”, Shadow Mountain