Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.

TODAY, I can choose what affects me, to not be afraid, to not let this break-up depress me, to look at mistakes as learning experiences, to be happy, to feel loved, TODAY I can choose....

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.