If you really love someone, ' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.

The glory of God is our rear guard.

So there we were

Novels and gardens, " she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order.

All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.