Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

No matter where you are along life’s path, your next step is your first step.

Resting in God's unchanging love today as I embrace His living word with His seed of wisdom and knowledge unfolding a life deep in me changing me day by day into His likeness

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.