I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.

Don't just give up, Hachiko.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some bea...

Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of d...

Call me Ishmael.

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

Bonjour, Monsieur Fraser. She inclined her veil gracefully, more to hide the broad smile on her face than in greeting, I thought. I see you have made the acquaintance of Bouton. Are you perhaps in sea...

Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'-Dodge(obviously)

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers a...

A whizzpopper! cried the BFG, beaming at her. Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little wh...

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A...

A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

A Most Dangerous HurricaneColumbus was aware of dangerous weather indicators that were frequently a threat in the Caribbean during the summer months. Although the barometer had not yet been invented,...

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.