This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

Sometimes when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you.

If we believe in them, love them and trust them, they see who they are through our eyes.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

The river overflows, not the sun. (Déborde le fleuve, - Pas le soleil)

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.