The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them.

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

That's the thing about digging holes, ” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

Your guess is as good as mine.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.

Seeing my children in the morning as they come down from their bedrooms makes my heart come alive. There's just no better moment in my day.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.