Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.