Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

The path is revealed in the treading.

Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

That is her style of beauty.

God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those wonderful things he put in you out of you. When He begins, do not resist!

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.