It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...