Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.

God gave us the church to arm us with help and strength

Don't blaming your challenge but get up and look it as a bridge to your success.

Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

So far he's bringing his A-game.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.