All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.
Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
My parents are highly evolved worriers. . . . If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.
Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.
Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.