Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We...

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human –...

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice - versa?

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. { "The hidden sides of his character" }

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

It is when I find my soul is lost and lustfully wandering betwixt heaven and hell, and in that moment of spiritual bliss when the chances of recovering from falling into the sexual abyss are zero... I...

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.

Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless...

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

A criminal always returns home.

The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?

The conception of two people living together for twenty - five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting

The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.

Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but...

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

... she bowed just low enough to draw the young man's {Daniel Carpenter} eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second. Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man....

unspeakably poor, because she could give nothing and only received, with

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before John Owen

"Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start...

She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I...

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?