Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories...this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

A relationship takes place between two people across space and time, and suddenly no one seems like a stranger.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.

It is absolutely essential to hang in there—especially when you feel most discouraged.

Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.