An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

I believe that open-heart surgery is a mustfor all human beings

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.