Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

…to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth...

Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical...

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that o...

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. —Richard David BachThe caterpillar believes it is dying because it's being sealed in a tomb. The Master knows that the ca...

What people consider precious is different for everybody.

We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised awesome in a week of scripted blah. But because it advanced our understanding. This presi...

We all grew up, those of us who took to heart. We came to cringe a little at our old favorite poet, concluding that God was likely never Pooh Bear, that sometimes New York and California could be jus...

Warm summer twilight here in upper Illinois country in this little town deep far away from everything, kept to itself by a river and a forest and a meadow and a lake. The sidewalks still scorched. The...

Two farewell gifts, Sadie muttered, from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.And you...

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.