If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan

What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

May we uphold God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

Organize before they rise!

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.