Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...

Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.