if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Don't you oh well me, sir, " Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

Every extramarital intimate relationship has a spiritual resonance, the consequences of which can be very severe.

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey.

Most politicians are not authentic.

- Just do you know, Lenny this isn't a date. - Then what is it? - It's me falling sorry for you, because you're such a loser.