Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.