Charlotte made a promise to herself then and there: If I ever see someone fall, I'll ask if they're okay.

If you don't see something beautiful, change your viewpoint.

Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.

Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.

In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.