Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us.

Those blue pools still wavered between her eyes and mouth. “I’m gonna kiss you now, minou.”She might have nodded. She might have blinked. One for yes, two for hell yeah.

Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are.

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.