People will respect you more if you are honest with them.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Anyone can follow a crowd.It's the leader that follows the facts.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]""Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?

Love is alcohol.

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.