I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.

She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.

If [Donald Trump] comes forward and if he does that, then, of course, there will be some engagement.

That God, Who dwells in my hand, Knows this secret plan Of the things He will do for the world Using my hand!

Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.