Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
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...
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may...
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.