While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.

You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see your

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England