Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

The sparrow still falls.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Elvis is everywhere. Elvis is everything. Elvis is everybody. Elvis is still The King.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

There are no sects in geometry.