Saison 5

«A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.»

«One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.»

«There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.»

«Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.»

«I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.»

«There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.»

«These violent delights have violent ends.»

«You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.»

«And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.»

«Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you.»

«In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons.»

«Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.»

«Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy.»

«He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.»

«So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.»

«It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature. And we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives; to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death but to celebrate her life. She would tell us... She would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close, because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of The Pirates of Penzance. I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment: "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care their arms around thee creep, for, oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep.»

«What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.»

«Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.»

«There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.»

«Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.»

«In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.»

«Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it.»

«Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.»

«If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?»

«Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.»

«Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.»

«When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.»

«Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.»

«Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.»

«We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.»

«Family is a haven in a heartless world.»

«I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.»

«A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.»

«Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»

«A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.»

«I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.»

«Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.»

«Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.»

«The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it's taken place.»

«The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.»

«And out of the darkness came the hands that reached thro' nature, moulding men.»