How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Knock. Pound on heaven’s door if you have to, but don’t give up. God hears all sincere prayers.

Always walk toward the direction of your love.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

I really do love to do things that are nice and simple!

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.