The Christian church was born in song.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

I just like to build things and do things.

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.