And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. "Short for Davyd, " he said pleasantly.The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

The beauty of life is sharing life.

What you think of is what you will attract to your life.

You story must be best told by you. Your experience is a sacred life.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

I am waiting for that Morning, When Me and My Dream, both will be Together.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

Great times are great softeners