Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

For more irresponsible that human beings can be, nature always finds (not always healthy) a way to teach us how to be treated.

The Bible clearly says that faithfulness and persecution often go hand in hand.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.