I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did

The wisdom coming from above, the faith that sweetly works by love.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

A good speaker does not stutter.

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.