Life will not give you what you want, it will give you what you work for.

Words are a mirror of the soul.

The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

She makes my old pick-up truck feel like a limousine.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.