Hatred comes first, and reasons follow after.

I have another friend who thanks me to this day for introducing him to Sigrid Undset.

In September 1999, my wife and I traveled to Guangdong province in China to complete the adoption of our daughter. 

Well was it called the Place of the Skull. 

I have in my study a silver vase holding four peacock plumes and several parrot feathers. 

By the time Jean-François Millet had at last gained some grudging respect from the Paris Salon, his health was failing. 

The scene is the Basilica of Saint Mark, in Milan, in 1874. 

Montaigne's reflections are a call to honest and sometimes painful self-examination. 

I cannot think of any politician, thinker or novelist who has sent so much comfort and aspiration to so many people.

Martin Scorsese's homage to Mafiosos movies is ultimately a tale of life experienced from the perspective of eternity.