The trodden path is the safest.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.