Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

Blaise Pascal

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.

Traci LaRussa

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

LeRoy Neiman

Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did.

Lil Wayne

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

David Brown

He didn't know if he had the right or not. Didn't know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.

Orson Scott Card

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

Adrienne Barbeau

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Camille Pissarro

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Joel Osteen

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Warren Buffett