Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Heresy, " by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime, " implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.

And yet, she knew she could be.

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.