You can't come in, colonel, " she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Every other religion gives you directions on how to find God, but Jesus takes you to Him.

I'm a homebody. I like having my parents around.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.