For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours.

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

when you help a child develop their talents, you are creating a better tomorrow.

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.