Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

When she returned to Bella Vista, she discovered Isabel in her manic-baking mode. The kitchen was filled with the aromas of butter, vanilla and cinnamon. She'd created Danishes and rugelach and crispy...

Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into...

Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as challenges? Why do we see someone setting a limit and then try to push? Once, I was at a restaurant with a large group of people and the w...

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong. However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or ot...

You ever get any death threats? How about ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends? You run over anyone recently? ~ Morelli

You know what you were and it wasn’t a job. His words taunted me, offering a glimmer of hope. Yet, his words on the driveway less than two months ago lingered in my thoughts. Why are you bothering me?...

The ute was casting a shadow that no light was ever gonna make. A shadow doesn’t search for a drain like that. Shadows don’t have blowflies drowning in them.

¡He confirmado que no existe diferencia entre todos los demás y yo!Basta con un mal día para que el hombre más cuerdo del mundo enloquezca.A esa distancia está el mundo de mí. A un mal día.

You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if noth...

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.

Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered...

[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead. Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. Ella found a dog, she announc...

When he heard light, rushing footfalls, he turned his head. Someone was racing along the second-floor balcony. Then laughter drifted down from above. Glorious feminine laughter. He leaned out the arch...

When speakers make eye contact with an audience, they will be perceived as being more prepared, more competent, confident, and trustworthy. Eye contact helps to relax the speaker and reminds them that...

Where is the bane of my existence?In the shower, freshening up.Damn it all to hell. Oh God, who did Ascanio screw now?No, no, he's covered in blood.Oh good. Wait a minute. The kid is covered in blood...