Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?

I was out of Hell Fire and my black market dealer was dead.

God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.

Fitness isn’t about building a better body. It’s about building a better life.

I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.