I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.