Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.

If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.

As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition.

The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.