...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry, ” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.