I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father's loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below.

Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Follow your heart and success will be your unimpressive shadow.

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.