So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

Missing rubs the soul raw.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Family. The greatest loyalty after God.

Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it

She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter?

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.