The sky the sky- same as it always was.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

I got 6 jobs I don't get TIRED!

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.