He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!

Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'