Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

I play a lot of basketball.

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.

I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.