A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

No one wants to see curvy women.

...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Firsts are best because they are beginnings

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed.

I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.

None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."