Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visite...

Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.

The tragic brilliance of politics and control is found in the ability to get the masses arguing over which poison they should drink.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray,...

I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave...

But though I might fill the world with dragons I never had the slighest real doubt that heroes ought to fight with dragons. I must stop to challenge many child-lovers for cruelty to children. It is qu...

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind, nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.

Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.

I see who I am, and I am beyond who I was.

Paul gives us an astonishing understanding of waiting in the New Testament book of Romans, as rendered by Eugene Peterson, 'Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mo...

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

When you hear the echoes of my mind, you'll know that I wasn't listening to what you said.

What we do is what means the most.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. Th...

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed o...