Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.