Victory is always bittersweet.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.

Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

There is magic in all life.

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.

The books are your teacher, after and before school.

I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father's loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.