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Surrender is not an option, keep trying is the answer.

Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

You didn't tell me this would happen.You didn't ask. So how am I to blame?

Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the g...

What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to (usually contracted to ), t...

To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need. Most of the time it is the members of the ghetto who smash each other, and themselves. But as long as the ghetto walls are standing there will always c...

There's good news and slightly less good news.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral s...

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been ignored or forgiven; suggestions have been made about turnin...