Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you.She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. Like a cancer?Like a favorite vice.

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.Canoodle? repeated Clary, never havin...

I woan you go back to that boy--not until you give me one . A sweet kiss. Then he reached forward, unlacing the ribbon from my hair.What are you doing? I murmured.Souvenir. He put it in his pocket, a...

As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

No matter what you have, no matter your experience level, sometimes you just need a hand.

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could h...

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

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

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest o...

Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.

Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All t...

God is not interested in your ability. He isinterested in your availability. When you availyour ability to God, you become a faithful leader.

It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain and feeling emo...

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.