J. F. C. Fuller Quotes
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
As I have gotten older, I am more of an independent woman, and my mom and I have our own lives, but we are still best friends and can be there for each other.
I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
