The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]