I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

Beautiful hours move so quickly.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson doesn't.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.