False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

A story is a wondrous invention.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Trust is the ultimate human currency.

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.