The habits of a lifetime reassert themselves with astonishing speed.
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.
Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward...
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.