Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.

If it's about the strength, every big animal can catch any mouse... but the skillful brand of the cat makes it's catch exceptional! Go, get the skills!

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Can they love without a word for it?

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.