Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.