What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?""No, " Miles conceded."Well, then, " she said, as if that settled the matter.

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

If money is a curse, may God smite me with it, and may I never recover!

Move towards your dreams inch by inch or suffer the pain of regret.

Ever notice that phrenologists have funny-shaped heads?

It's not enough to be busy

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us, they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time...

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.