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.

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.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

The best quote has never been said nor written.I do not need a quote.P. HermansNetherlands, August 11, 2016

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.