Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

I'm a bit of a tomboy.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.