Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Sorrow can be a bully.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

Don't be average and lazy, If you want to successes you should work hard to achieve it

Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy, " said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That, " explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

It's harder to hate someone when they like the same ice cream as you.

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Men are idol factories.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

Every man is the hero of his own song.