Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

I don't dye my hair and I can go without makeup.

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

I'll never be alone, because I'll always have My Problems with me!

Nothing has more power to transform than awareness. When you become complete inside yourself, the worst conditions don't matter.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.