This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.

Every place is the center of the world.

Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be . . . impure.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

I love America, but I don't like it.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.