Every child is a blessing and should be raised to become a blessing to others.

I'm not running behind my puberty, I'm running behind my dreams.

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

The low suffer most the blow of the law

She gritted her teeth. "You can't just... get into my bed like this." A ghost of a smile played across his face. "I already have, " he murmured.

We need much less than we think we need.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.