Suffering often clarifies what really matters in life.

Leaders start with the positive, always believing the best first.

Make it your mission to encourage everyone who crosses your path.

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.