I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

We believe world peace is inevitable.

You need to understand that you are not your appearance or your body

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

Love yourself and you can heal your life.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.