Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

Roger’s wand made a crackling noise as he traced it around Winston’s arms, down his waist, and everywhere else.

He glared at Mr. Diddley’s yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he’d like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.

To be happy, make others happy.

Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss.

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.