Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.
The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.
I'm fascinated that people drawn to cults want to know what to do. And people want to know what to think. And people want to know how to feel. Not just what to feel but how to feel.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.