if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

We went our several ways, " said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should.

Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.

You can say nothing by saying everything. You can say everything by saying nothing.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.