It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, ….

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by hi….

It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are ….

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value:….

God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not fo….

Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and le….

I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark"..

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man..

Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men w….

The reason that we have both good and wicked thoughts together is not, as some suppose, because the Holy Spirit and the devil dwell together in our i….

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position..

And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradis….

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, a….

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation..

And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I think, than of birds - w….

You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires wh….

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live..

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresi….

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. T….

It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the mos….