I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

A poem is no place for an idea.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.