Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.