"Half the harm in this world is done by people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
"We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment. This, to begin with."
—C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."
—Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
"Nature is not human-hearted."
