Quotes

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

It is good to love the unknown.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

I love skiing.

I would love to drive a MotoGP but I'm not sure Ferrari agrees.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.