Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope.What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

Maggie Stiefvater

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.

Jane Austen

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

Jose Marti

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Dusty Baker

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

The earth laughs in flowers.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

Harry Reid

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

John Bruton

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King