Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or maybe ‘irresistible’?

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's it?" "With any luck, yes." Luck? We were depending on luck? Nash is so screwed.

I really like reading about how families work together.

Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris