Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

Summer's heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in its turn, and everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish of the unloved. The world of sensible seasons had come undone.

"It's called Two and a Half Men," Dermot was telling his guest. "I understand," Bellenos said. "Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn't." "I think so," Dermot said. "Don't you think the...

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL

This larder of memories, of sex, of life, of family that we had built up, could always be called upon in the leaner times of our relationship... Everything we had built together over twenty years was...

Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the...

And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections,...

On the one hand, forcing other people to clean up our mess violates basic notions of fairness. On the other hand, actually preventing climate-change problems would require societies today to make...

These ideas might have been expected to draw fire from Hubbert's employer - he had become second-in-command at a big Shell Oil research center in Houston. But they attracted little notice until 1956

In all of history, humankind has been able to domesticate only twenty-five mammals, a dozen or so birds, and, possibly, a lizard.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither...

In short, the fragilista {medical, economic, social planning} is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects...

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

There is an element of deceit associated with interventionism, accelerating in a professionalized society. It's much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you." Of...

Humans will believe anything you say provided you do not exhibit the smallest shadow of diffidence; like animals, they can detect the smallest crack in your confidence before you express it. The trick...

A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

The overplanners just take longer to be wrong and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed.

Mikhail replayed the recent events in his mind for her. Raven inhaled, feeling as if someone had hit her square in the stomach. , he assured.

Do you have any idea how hard it is for me to meditate when you're murdering someone?

Savannah purred, her voice strong in his mind. he objected strenuously.

"Say it, Gregori," she bit out between clenched teeth. "I need to hear you say it."

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body, Margaret Fuller

No wallet. No money clip. No ID. No keys. No phone. Just a small Swiss Army knife in one of the inner pockets.

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.