Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

I'm a private kind of person.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.