Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

Believe in miracles. I have seen so many. They came when every indication would say that Hope was lost. Hope is never lost!

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.