Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

The kids just aren't the same today.

You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry

Testimonials are the BEST way to beat down the price objection and win the sale.

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace