A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The future is always beginning now.

You're an asshole.And you're a bitch, he says. A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

Brianna olhou para seu relógio, ainda surpresa em vê-lo ali. Ainda faltava meia hora. Se pudessem evitar derramamento de sangue até...Um grito lancinante vindo de cima e ela fez uma careta. A ajudante...

An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that allo...

Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought t...

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me,...

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common nati...

People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to knowthe reason for your existence.

The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with...

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.