The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

A person who thinks about "why" is a philosopher.

In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

They were like two magnets who couldn't decide whether to attract or repel.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.