The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one e...

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her"If you could go back in life,what would you have done differently?"And without missing a beat she answered, "...

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

Jane stood beside silver platters of cucumber sandwiches and smoked salmon sandwiches and savory-sweet ham sandwiches and open-faced sandwiches with thickly spread butter and fresh mint.

Sometimes Caesar gets killed cos Brutus is an Honest Man.

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It i...

If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".

I tend to throw tantrums a lot. Wear a helmet in my presence.

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Reject evil. Choose the good.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Please, Tommy. Please

[With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you're a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! - you've succeeded. And then it's "How FAST can I get them to...

Wealthy is not about accumulating money into banks/pockets, not about having multi-properties to count of the atmospheric knowns, "it is when you make others sorrounding you to live a mult - health, h...