She tasted like run, root beer, and something wild he couldn’t place, but it didn’t matter. He wanted more. Craved it.

He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die.

First rule of a pirate’s mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom.

If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there’d be no reason to live it, right?

I thought you only had eyes for your ship.” God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you.

She smiled, and his dead heart warmed. One smile would never be enough.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

Holy Scriptures

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Example is more efficacious than precept.

It is a sin to write this.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.