Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

Don't ever let anybody know you're injured.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.