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“I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.”
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“To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.”
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“Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.”
Source : Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.51, Penguin
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“The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature....”
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“As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.”
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“These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.”
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“Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.”
Source : "Laura Lippman's Baltimore: Loving a Flawed Place". "Morning Edition" with John Ydstie and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. August 23, 2007. 
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“Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.”
