He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.

Tender, " she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.

You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you.

I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.

I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.

My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

Try the best to do the best of what you do, and you may find yourself doing the best of what you do best.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.