Every beginning is hard.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Love as thou wilt

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.