Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

While a mission statement speaks to why a company exists, a vision statement communicates what you want to accomplishin the future.

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.