Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

(Home) is you in things.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.