When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Goals are discovered, not made.

If as a voter you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump's your guy.