Mom laughed. "Well that's why, when it's real, you do whatever you have to do to work it out. Screw stability. Forget common sense. Make a move.

Nate wrapped his arms around her, holding her close. "Let's get you back and I'll build you a fire."She liked the way he said it. He'd build HER a fire.

Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he'd never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life.

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. "Do you have something against happiness?""Yes. Don't tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch.

From now on, every Christmas, let's have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.

Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

I am very proud of my father and what he's accomplished. It is amazing.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.