“Throughout my advocacy of the University's cause I had experienced the truth of Goethe's maxim that it is best, if you wish to influence people, to begin by assuming that they are already what you would have them to be.”

“People will wish you to be good. And when you are good.
They will fool you. Experienced.”

“I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf”

“How I wish I had your looks! If only you had some sense in you, God would have left you nothing to wish for.”

“The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.”

“If I'm to fall, would you be there to applaud, or would you hide behind them all? 'Cause if I have to go, in my heart you'd grow, and that's where you belong.”

“I truly wish with all my heart that universal salvation were true. But to pretend that people are not sinful and in need of salvation would be as cruel and deceptive as pretending that somebody was healthy even though you knew that he had a fatal disease for which you knew the cure.”

“You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.”

“Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.”

“What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.”