He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

The reader is the final arbiter.

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.