Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

I loved and lost and survived.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.

Yes!" Belen raises his fist in a victory gesture. "We shall save the world from Invierne with slings!

What is the city but the people?

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.