Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.