Donna Leon Quote

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...

Sow good seeds for a good yield.

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.