Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.
For dreams that never die.
No one expects an eighty - five - year - old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George.
Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.
Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?
For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that truly move the world are invisible.
It was a morning for Ella Fitzgerald. There are fine things in the world, after all. Dignity, refinement, warmth and humour, where you'd never expect to find them. Even as an old woman, an amputee in...
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting - its partner - and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing...
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.
Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is...
Shining brighter than the snow outside, Aelin lifted her chin and began her final walk home.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
I have often been asked where the inspiration for my books comes from. I wouldn’t know how to answer. On the journey of life, I accumulate experiences that get imprinted in the deepest layers of...
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.
It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.
Mad Hatter: Am I going mad?Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret.All the best people are.
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand
If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in he prison play, its this: write your own...
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.
She felt like she'd slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.
Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
The affair made men feel larger than life.
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...