Fate has given you a chance of stepping out of your comfort zone. Take the trip. (Aunt Eve talking to Febronia)

There is an old myth among the old folks here that if you wished on a moonlight river, your dreams will come true

Many of our churches have become content with creating well-behaved constituents instead of forgiven children of God.

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.

Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.