Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.
They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour. . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all
I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.