A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like ...
My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth — all woman!
Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a concern.
I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.
When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.
As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.
But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.
Seuls les enfants solitaires peuvent contenir toute leur passion; les autres, à trop causer éventent leurs sentiments en public, les émoussent en vaines confidences.
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.
Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up
You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.
The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.
Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.
Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.
Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.
