I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

Just because the roads were bad in the past we drive slow but if we still continue the same way on the highway of Life, you can never ‘Accelerate

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.