I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

.. questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.