He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70)

Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

A leader can lose his people if he does not know the problems they are facing.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.