I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

You may need to change your dreams.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

Some say that happy women are immaterial.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

There is salvation only for the brave.

Luck is when skill meets opportunity.