Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.

It’s easy to be a Christian when you’re living the perfect life. It’s easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.

Who do those boys think they are, treating us as if we are their property, taking away our innocence?

Scars can actually be proof of a healing wound.

The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers.

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

Love is forever, when you love deeply it is always there, just waiting to appear with gentle coaxing. In it's silence it whispers find me.~bns

I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap