Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.

By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.

Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!