One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?”For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime.”I can live with that, ” he said, and kissed her.

We’re your friends. Our job is to tease you mercilessly about your foibles, rag you about your upright, honorable nature, and point out to you when you’re being a complete dolt.

Pardon me for not being willing to commit my entire future to you based on two kisses and a blueberry muffin.

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don’t know the soul’s senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?