"I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both."

“Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear.”

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

“The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.”

“I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.”

“I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.”

“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”

Source : Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.277, Pickle Partners Publishing

“What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.”

“That's my girl," he murmured. "I'm not your girl." "Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality." "And the bad news?" "The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.”