There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.

Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.

You must show the world that you are a chosen generation

So Nikki came aboard as Jaqueline's spare cat, presumably in case our prime cat, Eliza, goes on vacation, takes industrial action, or requests a personal day.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.

They were numerically outnumbered.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.