....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he’s a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.

....if you wanted something enough, you’d be willing to stand and fight for it, even if you got beat down.

You want something enough that you’re going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.

I like him, sweetheart, and I’ll still give him hell. It’s my total right.

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.