Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Only boring people are bored.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

Why were you watching me change?" I explain. "Uh, 'cause I'm a guy?" He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again.

However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.