So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it..

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test..

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery..

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say..

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love..

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. ….

It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we….

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret..