Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Whyis "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And sayspeople need to shave twice a day.

God's codpiece, you're very kind

She had the world’s worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

Romance is all about making a story out of our love.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

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