My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Jodi Picoult

You can't go home again

Thomas Wolfe

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Sir Richard Steele

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Samuel Butler

I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

Ryan Seacrest

I am but an architectural composer.

Alexander Jackson Davis

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Paulo Coelho