Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together..

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

Good wares make good markets..

It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort..

Nature is always hinting at us..

Only the bold get to the top..

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my govern….

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber..

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

I have to chose my words carefully..

The more things you own, the more they own you..

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness).

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linge….