“Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing”

“What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.”

“It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.”

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

“How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?”

“[A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.”

“.. it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world… It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”

“If we’re being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.”

“Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.”

“Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”