I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

Let us look for the good rather than try to discover any hidden evil. We can easily find fault in others if that is what we are looking for.

How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?” “They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.