Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

I don’t need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?” “Hardly, ” Talia scoffed. “This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

I can learn as much from Darius Vassell as he can from me - but he can learn more

Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to-and that is what adventures are all about.