Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

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.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

Entrepreneurs don't fail because they want to, they fail because they don't have the right MINDSET to really succeed in a sustainable manner.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

Friends share all things.