She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

Religion is nothing more than the study of other people’s experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.

It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

There is no plan to bring our soldiers home. I think that is all Cindy Sheehan wants.

Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women, or at least the invention of the men who wanted to...

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from...

It’s just starting to pay for itself.

Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

People have told me that they feel like they are in our living room when they watch us perform. We pay a lot of attention to each other on stage.

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

These people have no clothing, they are needing hygiene items. There are nine different families. They have relatives in the area, but they just left with nothing. And they know they’re going to go home...

If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun....

That’s a good thing so you don’t have to pull weeds.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

It’s phenomenal, … We’re ready to give this out.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him...