All it takes is a single moment.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.