Make youself necessary to someone.
I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
I didn't know a damn thing about style.
Thank God for little miracles, right?
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her. . . well. . . She'd been, ah, vajazzled.
Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.
Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.