You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning.

Hope makes the soul glad.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

There are 190,000 privately-owned full-auto guns in the National Registry.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.