Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it.

Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS

A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.