You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

He threw the knife at Karian’s face, deliberately catching his temple. “Sons of Kings shouldn’t play with sharp toys.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

There’s not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn’t live without it.

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.