If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.

I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.

A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

Be good to feel good and to attract good.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Service to God is largely unacceptable without service to men

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their...

When we think of all the beatitudes in life, our heart shall be merry.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is supposed to be...'Be a man. Discover where yo...

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the l...

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

If you keep on retaliating what you receive, you'll be stuck in a infinite abyss of revenge and vendetta.

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it w...

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.