Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

He nodded and leaned down to kiss me. I let him, Dad be damned.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.

I guess it's nice to have someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.

I have always wanted my colors to sing.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.