People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.

There is a period for hope and one for mourning.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!

We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Andy Johnson is quick, brave and strong and he will get goals.

American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.