Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around.

You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.