Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.