The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

We will be judged by how well we love.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.