There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

If Life was like a movie, then I'd replay it again and again to relive my happiest memories.

God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are

Your work is your destiny.

Olivia, I’ll put on a show in front of your friends, at your work, whenever we’re in public. But I’m growing tired of pretending when we’re alone. Don’t tempt me.

I love 'Annie Hall, ' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway, ' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters, ' I absolutely loved it.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.