When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

I am an author! To read me is to know me.

You don't understand, " gasped Eli. "No one understands.""When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

Shakespeare, I come!