In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.
The truest family is the family of faith.
To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.
There is no truth without faith. Nothing is proven except to the heart of one who believes.
Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next.
The starvation of a child has no justification, even if the crops have failed, or the population is too large.
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We...
No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.
Why, you are a man of heart!Sometimes, replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. When I have the time.
When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. But you’ve loads of shoes, he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head...
They call this love, she said to herself. I know what it is now. I never thought I would know, but I do now.But she failed to add: if you can step back and identify it, is it really there? Shouldn't y...
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.
No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person’s eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another’s soul in one hour than it might take you a lifet...
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.