History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.