Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

It's simple: What you put in, is what you get out.

When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight.

Life is a journey of time within the mind.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage.

Life doesn't stop with football.

New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.