In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21

Bible

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

Jean M. Auel

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Michael Morpurgo

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

Chris Pine

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.

James Van Der Beek

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

John Cornyn

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

C.S. Lewis

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Theodore Roosevelt