And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

A secretary is not a toy.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.