She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

It is better to engaged you mind on positive thoughts.

I am not used to hating. Hate sits heavy on my heart. It reeks. I can smell it rotting my insides and I taste it on my tongue.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Stay fly, you can call me Have a Safe Flight

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky