This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand---how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions a...
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.