Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

Good deeds are seeds of generosity.

I don’t really think of myself as gay, though,” he began, and Kit rolled his eyes. “Don’t be so naïve, Willem,” he said. “Once you’ve touched a dick, you’re gay.

My adversary is the world of finance.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

He released her arm and crossed his own over his chest. "I'm trying not to jump to conclusions. Spit it out.""I'm more of a swallowing kind of a girl."Holy hell.

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marria

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Often we see detox as a solitary pursuit, something we have to muscle up for and go it alone. But the truth is that it will be easier and healthier if you find a way to integrate your friends and family into the experience.

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.