Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

It was haunted

To help others, will be rewarded

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

The love of power excludes all others.

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.