Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

In life the loser's score is always zero.