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

— Steven J. Carroll

...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.

— Steven J. Carroll

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.

— Steven J. Carroll

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

— Steven J. Carroll

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

— 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.

— Steven J. Carroll

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

— Steven J. Carroll

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

— Steven J. Carroll

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

— Steven J. Carroll

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.

— Steven J. Carroll