I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.