How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.

Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

Have they even seen the Winchester boys? Sammy and Dean's existence proves there is a god and she is a woman.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Not only must you learn to accept their gaze with your eyes but also with your heart.