From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

I know you're meant for me. I know you're the other half of my soul. We are meant to be together. - Avery Adams

The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

Being a father and trying to love my daughters with unconditional love - those were all good decisions.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.