He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.

He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.

So what's the deal with you and my sister?" He laughs shortly and rubs the back of his neck like something is there, tickling, tap

Don't stay away from me anymore."I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't

I wont let him have you.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.