Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.