Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.

I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.

--anger because pain would drown me without the protective shell.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.

Branding is the art of differentiation

So you are vampire then, my beauty?”- Damian (Marked Book #1) page 160

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.