Seven a.m. on the first day of summer vacation was, to her mind, a dangerous time to be awake. Even God had to be sleeping in.

When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one’s soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:In your case, ED is not a man's name.

May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.