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

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 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.

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.

Tithing is a sacred gift to health and wealth.

It is the things that happen, then how you react to them, that gives life some meaning.

Realizing your virtues is based on your determination

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.