Barbara Kingsolver Quote

I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you reall...

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interes...