The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

In all fairness, darlin’, I should probably warn you that this ain’t my first rodeo.

The soul is trapped by the personality/ego.The personality/ego has to have a shift of a higher self-worth, then and only then, can the personality/ego can act on what the soul is saying." Serena Jade

The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.