Red wine is different from white. Removing the grape skin does all the difference.

Hers is a timeless life weaving through other longer lives like a flash of lightning in a clouded evening sky.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.