Dirty Pillow Talk

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“I’m grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”