What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?

See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.

The fault is not in our stars, " I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.

Any change holds an opportunity.

I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.