I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death, " - John Carstairs

Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

There is nothing quite so comforting like being part of a community.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Sad company is bad company.

There's one born every minute.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.