Steven J. Carroll

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.

...a friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.