If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

Melissa Pritchard is a treasure.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.