Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, andintelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

We aim for the higher calling of God.

He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery.

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.