If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

Good enough is never good enough.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.

Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.