“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”

“All creation complains and moans, my dear lord Commissarius. Complaint is its distinctive sound.”

“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”

“Politics in its most common form: complaint. No one wanted to do it but everyone was happy to complain about it.”

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation”

“Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.”

“We don't have to complain about human selfishness: everyone cares about us, and even our enemies would like to correct our defects.”

“Thank goodness there were people who were happy with nothing, thought Julia, so that people like her (and everyone else she had ever met), could have more.”

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”