Just because you like me doesn’t make me what you want or need.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.