Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

Yes, she's fine. She's rereading one of your books. There's not many authors she likes, so if there's nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality.