“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may nev...”

“An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.”

“True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.”

“Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.”

“Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.”

“His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didnt prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself...”

“Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

“As you wish, of course." Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed unfamiliar music, scratchy and whiny, like cats fighting. Or a coffin with rus...”

“My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.”

“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate co...”

“For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.”

“It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.”

“I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around.”