[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone m...

I hate to tell you this, Jason said, but I think your leopard just ate a goddess.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.

No matter what you have, no matter your experience level, sometimes you just need a hand.

The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in a long while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you...

The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with...

I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.

Know and believe that anything is possible.

Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whet...

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about somethi...

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.