Her face a mask of fury and determination.

You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother.

You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.

And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.

You're safe now.

But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

Happiness lies in our heart. We have to nurture it with blossoms of faith and steady stream of goodness to brush aside the thistles of everyday strife.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

Money is made by sitting, not trading.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.