Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Give much, demand little.

You can do nothing without prayer and everything with it. Anything worth worrying about is something worth praying about.

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart

Sports saved my life.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

Go out there and row faster.

The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.