There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.

I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.

He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and gig

Skin color doesn't make you different, ' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that, ' Raymon replied, 'are white.

It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.